ADD red and yellow food colorings to remaining white frosting to tint it orange. Spread onto cake. Invert ice cream cone in hole in top of cake for the pumpkin's stem. Pipe the reserved green frosting in vertical lines down side of cake to resemble pumpkin.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Cooking Know-How

For a more rounded Great Pumpkin Cake, use a tall 12-cup fluted tube pan. As the cake bakes, it rises and forms a rounded top. When cake is unmolded (upside-down), the bottom of the cake will be rounded. If the cake is baked in a shorter 12-cup fluted tube pan, as it appears on the video, the resulting cake will be flatter.

Fun Idea

Place black gumdrops on sheet of waxed paper sprinkled with additional granulated sugar. Use a rolling pin to flatten each gumdrop, turning frequently to coat both sides with sugar. Cut into desired shapes with a sharp knife. Use to decorate frosted cake to resemble a jack-o'-lantern.

How to Pipe Frosting

Turn a resealable plastic bag into a handy piping bag for professional-looking decorated cakes. Simply spoon the frosting into the bag and seal the bag. Cut off a tiny piece from one of the bottom corners of the bag. Twist the bag at the top and holding the bag with one hand, guide the tip with the other. When you're done, the whole bag goes right into the garbage for easy cleanup!

This was fun to make, I used a pumpkin cake recipe which was great served with apple cider! I would recommend refrigerating the frosting for a few minutes before spreading it on the cake, though. The firmer the frosting, the easier it is to work it where you want it. Everyone loved it!

Maureen5510

posted:

10/9/2005

I enjoyed making this cake for my birthday, which is October 10th. Thanks for the cute idea Kraft!

gmaletta

posted:

10/9/2005

I made this recipe last year and took it to work. We had inventory the night of Halloween. It was a big hit. Very easy to make. I will certainly make it again this year.

Mellivesay

posted:

10/9/2005

Very hard to ice with this type of icing. I have NO idea how to get cream cheese icing so smooth. It does not harden therefore cannot be smoothed.
One 2 layer cake mix is not enough. I had the smallest pumpkin. The cone for stem was to small and fell through the middle, even though my pans were standard size, and I used comet cones.

a cook

posted:

10/8/2005

This was so easy to make and looked adorable for my son's Halloween/Birthday party! He is asking for the same cake again for his next birthday. Very simple to do.

a cook

posted:

10/6/2005

This is such a cute cake for the kids, there are a couple of tricks to get it right. alot of people are asking how to get the shape right, i found that if u split the batter bake half and then the other half and turn one half upside down and the other half right side up you get more of the curved shape.. i also added food coloring to the batter to make it orange like the inside of a pumpkin..and last but not least i cut a cup and placed inside the rings to hold the stem, came out very nice..

wheelygirl1

posted:

10/6/2005

i'm going to make this with my teen daughters

tsanfo

posted:

10/5/2005

Besides my frosting ability the cake turned out awesome. another cook had suggested to make the cake rounded on the bottom sprinkle a tad of baking soda on the top of the batter before baking-I did that and it turned out. Thanks for the tip. Will make again.

saraaraiza

posted:

9/28/2005

The idea is easy enough, but the way to make it round on the bottom and top is to use 2! cakes. One BUNDT! cake inverted on top of the other! Once you've got that down, you can go crazy with the decorating.

a cook

posted:

9/28/2005

Try using the pound cake recipe on the side of the cake mix box (you basically add a box of instant pudding and an extra egg). Then, you can flip the cake back over (after it cools) and trim the bottom with an electric or serated knife to make it rounded. Then flip te cake right side up again and frost as shown. Also, I think it might work better with a taller bunt pan and a little extra cake mix.